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Jan 19, 2011 BRNTerri rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: no-longer-own, historical-romance

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PUBLISHING INFO: Avon, 1975
REISSUED: Sourcebooks, 11/2010
GENRE: Historical Romance
SETTING: England
AUTHOR IMAGE: link
MY GRADE: D

SPOILER REVIEW: This was awful. I don't know what year this took place or how old Alex and Elysia are. I'm going to assume this was the 1800's, possibly 1700's. Elysia's parents and brother died two years before and she's been living with her abusive and mentally ill aunt since. Her aunt is her mother's step-sister and she's extremely jealous of her, has been since they ...more

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Jul 21, 2011 Jessica B rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, own, delirity-challenges, free-or-cheap, kindle, historical-romance

This was either a free or very cheap read on the Kindle. While it wasn't the best story I have ever read and it was a little slow to get going it was still entertaining. The first half of the book was for around 2 stars and the second half was probably closer to 4 stars. So I met int he middle with 3 stars.

Elysia had a good family and a good home and a really good life until her parents die and her brother is missing. Her evil aunt takes her home and treats her horribly making her clean and slee ...more

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Jul 28, 2010 LuvBug rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: dnf-partially-read, love-triangle, kindle, 2-stars-did-not-like-it, zzzzzzzzzzz, bodice-ripper, re-issued

I'm giving up on this book now. I'm tired of seeing it on my currently reading shelf. It's been months and I can't even bring myself to finish it even though I got half way through. The heroine's personality lacks spark, and the "rake" hero marrying her so quickly because he compromised her was too ridiculous to buy into. I've read historical for years, and still can't buy into that theme. ...more

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Jun 28, 2012 Vivisection rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: guilty-pleasures, historical-romance, smutty-reads, golden-age-of-bodice-rippers

Oh historical romance, how you shame me so. I get swept up in your story lines, your alpha males, your marriageable misses, your insistence on the middle class values of fidelity, heterosexuality, and a decent income to buy nice things.

And yet, I love you so with your scheming landed gentry plotting to amass wealth, fresh faced ingenues with a will of steel, domineering heroes who won't be led by a woman, misunderstandings, an under current of evil and smutty, smutty sex.

Sighs.

Laurie McBain is ...more

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Apr 15, 2011 Yulia rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: romance, historical

It started out slow, as in both characters were given back ground with was like 3 chapters, and beside the love plot there was another plot which was also given a few chapters, and so between all that and the start of their marriage and the description of how she lives in the end I can't say I felt that there was romance.
Plus somehow she just realizes she's in love with him, out of the blue, when I think there should be scenes that lead the reader to that conclusion and then the heroin should re ...more

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